SUNSET: 
Measuring Skyglow with Digital Cameras
Digital cameras are great for measuring skyglow, but more work needs to be done to automate the process.
Inside Sky & Telescope's April 2011 issue
Sky & Telescope's April 2011 issue is now available to digital subscribers.
March Digital Edition Available
The digital edition of the March 2011 S&T is now available.
Telescopes: Guides & Recommendations
SkyScanner 100 vs. 4.5-inch StarBlast
How does the little $100 scope stack up against its venerable bigger brother?
Telescopes: Guides & Recommendations
The Joy of Small Instruments
No photograph can compare with the experience of viewing Saturn directly — something that's possible with even the smallest telescopes.
February Digital Edition Available
The digital edition of the February 2011 S&T is now available.
Telescopes: Guides & Recommendations
Three Great, Small Reflectors
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars's XT4.5 and StarBlast 4.5 and Edmund Scientific's Astroscan set the standard of excellence for small, inexpensive, easy-to-use telescopes.
January Digital Edition Available
The digital edition of the January 2011 S&T is now available.
December Digital Edition Available
The digital edition of the December 2010 S&T is now available.
Guest Blog: In Defence of GPS
A reader expounds the virtues of electronic navigation — for automobiles and telescopes.
Has Your Observing Site Gotten Brighter?
Measurements with a Sky Quality Meter indicate that none of the author's observing sites has gotten significantly brighter over the last 5 years.
Tunnel Vision Navigation
The key to maintaining your integrity and sanity in the computer age is to make sure that electronics are your servant, not your master.
A Road Map to the North America Nebula
Hanging high overhead on autmun evenings, the North America Nebula is the season's best — assuming that you have dark skies to enjoy it and a good roadmap to help you interpret it.
Deep-Sky Wonders Again
The November 2010 Deep-Sky Wonders column is rich enough to keep an experienced observer busy for many nights.
Blinded by the Light
Flashlights create a little bubble of excellent visibility, at the cost of hiding the wider world.
Backcountry Stargazing Again
It's hard to find a legal wilderness campsite in the U.S. Northeast that has a decent view of the night sky. But when you do, it's well worth the effort.
S&T's New Single-Issue Magazine
Sky & Telescope has just produced a slim but extremely useful publication.
Stargazing versus Hiking
It's not easy to reconcile the demands of strenuous backpacking by day and intensive stargazing at night.
Stellafane at its Best
There's star parties and star parties — and then there's Stellafane. Inaugurated in 1926, the Stellafane Convention is probably the longest-running star party in North America, if not the world.
Corrected Light-Pollution Atlas
New work indicates that the venerable and highly respected World Atlas of Aritifical Night Sky Brightness was systematically distorted by snow cover when the underlying satellite data was obtained.